Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainHarvard Township has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 11% for Nebraska as a whole. There are 145 jobs in Harvard Township for 444 working residents. The two grades for Harvard Township are C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Harvard Township, in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Harvard Township
On income, poverty and job access, Harvard Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Harvard Township’s grade up (6.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Harvard Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Harvard Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
22% of working residents work in Sutton
Where Harvard Township clocks in
22% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The daily commute in and out of Harvard Township
On a workday 413 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Harvard Township on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Harvard Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harvard Township, 2013 → 2023: 239 → 145. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Harvard Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Harvard Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harvard Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 516 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Nebraska: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Miles to work from Harvard Township
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Harvard Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Harvard Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across Nebraska, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 533 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Harvard Township households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harvard Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,928th of 3,771: where Harvard Township ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,926 | Galveston IN | 1,273 | $57K | 10.6% | 4.3% | 2% | C |
| 1,927 | Fort Ripley Township MN | 1,081 | $75K | 11.2% | 2.4% | <1% | C |
| 1,928 | Harvard Township NE | 1,097 | $64K | 6.9% | 2.9% | 7% | C |
| 1,929 | Ames Township OH | 1,213 | $84K | 12.3% | 3.4% | 3% | C |
| 1,930 | Gallant AL | 1,081 | $55K | 7.6% | 6.5% | 0% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Harvard Township, the top three, the last and three more from Nebraska.
Harvard Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Harvard Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard Township | – | C | B | 22 min | $64,375 |
| Eldorado Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Leicester Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Lynn Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Eldorado Township, Leicester Township and Lynn Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Harvard Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Harvard Township: questions
What is the median household income in Harvard Township?
$64,375 (±$14,272) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harvard Township?
6.9%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harvard Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harvard Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sutton (22%, 14 mi), Hastings (16%, 16 mi), Grand Island (9%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harvard Township walkable?
Harvard Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harvard Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harvard Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harvard Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.